Improving 802.11 Fingerprinting of Similar Devices by Cooperative Fingerprinting

Clémentine Maurice, Stéphane Onno, Christoph Neumann, Olivier Heen, Aurélien Francillon

2013

Abstract

Fingerprinting 802.11 devices has been proposed to identify devices in order to mitigate IEEE 802.11 weaknesses. However, important limitations prevent any real deployment. On the first hand, fingerprinting has a low accuracy when the devices have similar hardware and software. On the second hand, attackers may forge signatures to impersonate devices. We propose Diversity, a cooperative fingerprinting approach that improves accuracy of existing fingerprinting methods while relying only on off-the-shelf hardware. Diversity improves fingerprinting up to the reliable individual identification of identical 802.11 devices. This approach modifies the signature of devices by modifying slightly their traffic attributes. We evaluate Diversity with both a simulation and an implementation, achieving a false positive rate of 0% with a dataset including identical devices. Finally, we complement Diversity by mechanisms for detecting attackers that try to forge signatures.

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in Harvard Style

Maurice C., Onno S., Neumann C., Heen O. and Francillon A. (2013). Improving 802.11 Fingerprinting of Similar Devices by Cooperative Fingerprinting . In Proceedings of the 10th International Conference on Security and Cryptography - Volume 1: SECRYPT, (ICETE 2013) ISBN 978-989-8565-73-0, pages 379-386. DOI: 10.5220/0004529103790386


in Bibtex Style

@conference{secrypt13,
author={Clémentine Maurice and Stéphane Onno and Christoph Neumann and Olivier Heen and Aurélien Francillon},
title={Improving 802.11 Fingerprinting of Similar Devices by Cooperative Fingerprinting},
booktitle={Proceedings of the 10th International Conference on Security and Cryptography - Volume 1: SECRYPT, (ICETE 2013)},
year={2013},
pages={379-386},
publisher={SciTePress},
organization={INSTICC},
doi={10.5220/0004529103790386},
isbn={978-989-8565-73-0},
}


in EndNote Style

TY - CONF
JO - Proceedings of the 10th International Conference on Security and Cryptography - Volume 1: SECRYPT, (ICETE 2013)
TI - Improving 802.11 Fingerprinting of Similar Devices by Cooperative Fingerprinting
SN - 978-989-8565-73-0
AU - Maurice C.
AU - Onno S.
AU - Neumann C.
AU - Heen O.
AU - Francillon A.
PY - 2013
SP - 379
EP - 386
DO - 10.5220/0004529103790386